Not so gloomy
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-06-06Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 3 →
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TWO months ago CBI. President Sir Campbell Fraser declared at a meeting of the National Economic Devclopment Council that a document on the economy was 'so gloomy that people reading it would want to get the Readers may have wondered why Sir Campbell Fraser himself was not already at the dockside, ticket in hand for the first available cruise liner.
• The answer is that while the future looks bleak for most of us, he -like most employers - is doing all right. As chairman of the board of Dunlop Holdings, he insulated himself against the overall gloom by first boat out of the country' raising his salary no less than 21% to £82,000.
In fact Sir Campbell and his board made the gloom which the NEDC report analysed: million, and made 12,000 workers redundant. their own contribution to Dunlop last year lost £80
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October 1981: Callaghan urges Foot to: with dissident Tories, Liberals and the i 7302*